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Outdoor photograph at an open-sided pavilion with a corrugated roof, palm trees and red boundary walls behind. A bearded man in a deep maroon robe with a saffron-edged hem stands barefoot on a raised paved platform, arms raised with hands behind his head and eyes closed. He wears a long garland of white and pink flowers around his neck and a red tilak on his forehead. Behind him, a second person in a dark red garment walks away carrying an object, and a third person in white stands further back near a tall golden pillar and a red stone base. The scene reads as a ritual or ceremonial moment in an ashram courtyard.